Q9450 58C Idle, Whats wrong ?

[wolf2009]

Running Q9450 with a Zerotherm Nirvana 120mm .

Really high idle temps . The tjmax values are set to 100 in realtemp according to Intel document .

Reseated the heatsink, 3 times with differrent application methods for MX-2 .

Used the credit card , and spreading it with finger wrapped in plastic too .

What way does the fan on Zerotherm Nirvana blow air ?

This is how everything is placed, except the antec 80mm and enermax 120mm fans are not there anymore .

This is reported by GIGABYTE's Easy tune utility with Winprime 1024 test running, the CPU temp is 38C

http://img.techpowerup.org/080901/Capture114.jpg

 

[Markfw]

What is the vcore ? Some motherboards overvolt.

 

[error8]

There is nothing wrong. The idle temperature is screwed up at 45 nm cpus. Only the full load is almost "exact".

You really have to get another case though.

 

[wolf2009]

Originally posted by: Markfw900
What is the vcore ? Some motherboards overvolt.

Vcore is 1.12

Originally posted by: error8
You really have to get another case though

Whats wrong with the case ?

 

[Drsignguy]

What motherboard do you have and does it have the latest (or) correct bios for your Q9450? If your board supports it, double check that you have the latest bios. It just may well be that this might be your problem.

 

[wolf2009]

Originally posted by: Drsignguy
What motherboard do you have and does it have the latest (or) correct bios for your Q9450? If your board supports it, double check that you have the latest bios. It just may well be that this might be your problem.

GIGABYTE EX-38 DS4 with latest F5 bios .

 

[error8]

Originally posted by: wolf2009


Whats wrong with the case ?

It's ugly.

What is your full load temperature??

 

[Soulkeeper]

intel is running hot again like the prescott days ...
and now they are bringing back HT

this is supposedly normal

 

[QuadDamage2k]

turn your stepping off

 

[BlueAcolyte]

stepping off? what does that mean...

 

[Idontcare]

Originally posted by: BlueAcolyte
stepping off? what does that mean...

I'm going to hazard a guess and speculate that they meant to say turn speedstep off. Although that would seem counter-intuitive if reducing power consumption and reducing temps were the objective. So my guess has high probability of being wrong.

 

[Aberforth]

All 45nm cpus report incorrect temps, except surface temp.

 

[wolf2009]

load never goes over 65C , at this temp the heatsink just feels lukewarm . Motherboard bios shows temp as 34C .

 

[Aberforth]

here's idle and load temps of Q9300, obviously inaccurate.

http://img222.imageshack.us/img222/9536/idlekj2.jpg
http://img48.imageshack.us/img48/4708/loaddy5.jpg

 

[error8]

Originally posted by: wolf2009
load never goes over 65C , at this temp the heatsink just feels lukewarm . Motherboard bios shows temp as 34C .

So, there you go. There is nothing wrong. I have a friend that owns an E8400 which idles at 55 C and hits 60 C under load. It's just the way the sensors are reporting the temperatures.

If you had 90 C in full load in CoreTemp, then you would have had a problem.

 

[wolf2009]

it would be nice if anyone else had this same issue with this stepping and motherboard and confirm

 

[error8]

Too bad you don't believe us....

 

[wolf2009]

Originally posted by: error8
Too bad you don't believe us....

No i believe you .

Here's my experience from yesterday

Yesterday I overclocked my CPU to 3.2 Ghz at night when it was raining outside and I had the window open . SO cool air was coming in . Then I ran WPrime 1024M .

The load temp topped at 67C , Idle was around 57C . I touched the heatpipes on my cooler near the bottom ( near the IHS ) . They didn't even feel warm ( maybe lukewarm ) . Then I touched NB heatsink on my motherboard, that felt warmer than the heatpipes and the fins on the Nirvana Cooler .

 

[Cutthroat]

Originally posted by: wolf2009

Originally posted by: error8
Too bad you don't believe us....

No i believe you .

Here's my experience from yesterday

Yesterday I overclocked my CPU to 3.2 Ghz at night when it was raining outside and I had the window open . SO cool air was coming in . Then I ran WPrime 1024M .

The load temp topped at 67C , Idle was around 57C . I touched the heatpipes on my cooler near the bottom ( near the IHS ) . They didn't even feel warm ( maybe lukewarm ) . Then I touched NB heatsink on my motherboard, that felt warmer than the heatpipes and the fins on the Nirvana Cooler .

Sounds about right. There's nothing wrong with your temps, they're right on target.